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ECLIPSE Blackoil Reservoir Simulation

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The ECLIPSE industry-reference Blackoil simulator offers the most complete and robust set of numerical solutions for fast and accurate prediction of dynamic behavior—for all types of reservoirs and degrees of complexity, structure, geology, fluids, and development schemes. ECLIPSE is a fully implicit, three-phase, 3D, general purpose black-oil simulator that includes several advanced and unique features. In this course, you will discover the various solutions ECLIPSE offers over the entire spectrum of reservoir simulation. This training focuses on understanding ECLIPSE syntax rather than simulation methodology.

Agenda

Topics

Instructors

Audience

Prerequisites

Agenda

Day 1

Module 1- Reservoir simulation overview

o What is reservoir simulation

o An introduction to ECLIPSE

o Interaction with ECLIPSE

Module 2 – Petrel RE as a postprocessor

Module 3 – RUNSPEC section

o RUNSPEC section setup

Start date of the simulation

Basic character of the model

Memory allocation

o RUNSPEC keywords

o SPECIAL topics including parallel processing

Day 2

Module 4- GRID/EDIT sections

o Grid types

o Grid cell property definition

o Local grid refinement

o Transmissibility calculations

Non-neighbor connections

Modeling of geological features such as Pinchouts and unconformities

Module 5 – PROPS section

o Introduction to PVT and the applications

Black oil vs. compositional simulation

o Fluid properties in ECLIPSE BlackOil

Single-phase simulations

Two-phase simulations

Three-phase simulations

Oil/Gas/Water Equations of State

PVT data entry using the relevant keywords

o Additional topics

EXTRAPMS keyword

Multiple PVT types using PVT regions

API tracking implementation: Multiple PVT types using API tracking

o Rock properties: Saturation functions

Rock compaction

Saturation function definition

Saturation endpoint terminology

Saturation families and their keywords

Implementation of endpoint scaling

Day 3

Module 6- REGIONS section

o REGIONS section setup

Reservoir division based on variations in reservoir characteristics

Reservoir division for report purposes

Module 7 – SOLUTION section

o Initialization by equilibration

o Restarts and enumeration

o Aquifer modeling facilities

Numerical aquifers

Fetkovich aquifers

Carter-Tracy aquifers

Flux aquifers

Grid cell aquifers

Day 4

Module 8 - SUMMARY section

o SUMMARY section setup

Types of output mnemonics that can be requested

Module 9 – SCHEDULE section

o SCHEDULE section modes and content

History matching versus prediction

o Well definition and connections to the grid

o VFP curve specification

o Historical well control specification

Day 5

Module 9 - SCHEDULE section

o Prediction well control specification

Transition from history matching to prediction

Economic limit definition

Automatic workovers

Restarts

o Recovery optimization strategies such as

Do nothing base case

Water injection scheme

Voidage replacement scheme

Gas re-injection strategy

Module 10 – Convergence

o Convergence issues and troubleshooting

Convergence reports

Speeding up ECLIPSE

Time stepping controls

Non-linear and linear iterations

Simulator control

Common causes of problems

Treatment of local grid refinements

Convergence checklist

Topics

Understand how a simulator initializes and executes

Define block-centered and corner-point grid geometry

Describe rock and fluid properties

Allocate initial pressure and saturation distribution

Define aquifers

Control wells under history matching and production regimes

Comprehend the ECLIPSE Blackoil file structure

Understand input rules

Specify and edit input and output data

Build and execute a simulation model

Analyze results through post-processing

Instructors

Kamshat Ussenova

Audience

Reservoir engineers, geoscientists, and other technically trained individuals introduced to reservoir engineering who are interested in learning reservoir simulation using ECLIPSE Blackoil simulator